Tombstone



April 29, 1924.

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INEVA TAG-LLONIA REILLY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

TOMBSTONE.

Application filed October 23, 1922, Serial No. 596,341. Renewed November1, 1923.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, INEVA T. REILLY, acitizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county ofMarion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tombstones; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to iinprovements'in tombstones and moreparticularly to head stones, the object being to provide a stone havinga novel form of base which assists in anchoring the stone and alsoserves to contain growing plants or cut flowers, as occasion mayrequire, a suitable container being preferably provided for the cutflowers.

With the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel subjectmatter hereinafter described and claimed, the description beingsupplemented by the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 is a front elevation.

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view as indicated by line 33 of Fig. 1,showing a container within the base for out flowers.

Figure 1 is a view similar to Fig. 3 but illustrating the manner inwhich the base is used to contain growing plants.

In the drawing above briefly described, the numeral 1 designates headstone of any desired shape, the lower end 2 of said head stone beingreduced and having a. flat front side 3 w1th a shoulder 4 facingdownwardly and disposed at the yuncture of the side 3 with the remainingfront side portion of the stone. At the front of the stone 1, I pro videa horizontally elongated base block 5 having a flat rear side which itsagainst and is cemented to the side 3 of the reduced stone end 2, theshoulder a then resting upon the block 5 as shown. The block 5 iselongated in a direction parallel with the front side of the stone 1 andis of a length greater than the width of said stone as shown in Fig. 1,whereby it serves to efiectively anchor the stone when inset in theearth.

the purpose of containing cut flowers, as

shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. The several sides of the container 8 arepreferably tapered downwardly to some extent so as to facilitateinsertion and removal and to also permit a number of the containers tobe readlly nested while shipping or storing, before they are sold to theuser.

If desired, the container 8 may be re moved and growing plants may beplanted within the opening 6, as disclosed in Fig. 1.

The invention may be embodied in a number of different sizes andproportions and obviously any desired materials may be employed.

I claim: I

1. A head stone having a base adapted to be inset in the earth to assistin anchoring the stone, said base extending forwardly from the headstone and being elongated in a direction parallel to the front side ofthe stone with its end portion extending beyond the head stone and thebase having an opening entirely from its top to its bottom to receiveeither growing flowers or a container of out flowers.

2. A headstone having a reduced lower end and a downwardly facingshoulder across its front side at the juncture of said reduced end withthe remainderof the stone, a horizontallyelongated base block of greaterlength than the width of said stone having its rear side fitting againstthe front side'of said reduced stone end,

said block being in contact with said shoul- I INEVA TAGLLONIA REILLY.

